While not a book, the Saints and Feasts feature of the OCA website actually gives a nice simple history of each of the saints and feasts with troparion and kontakion as observed on the Slavic Typicon. The Greek Archdiocese also has a nice one that includes the Gospel readings and epsitle for the day based on the Typicon of the Great Church as wellas it sometimes utilizes Father Paulos's book on saints as well as HTM Readings for the saints on its page.

I've seen the websites mentioned. My main concern is to gain more knowledge about these people. I'm willing to buy a book (or several) as long as they're comprehensive and include most of the saints. I just don't know if a book like that exists.

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